Excellent article regarding the current destruction of our civil liberties:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16110
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16110
Quote:
| Since founding the RFC in 1990, Meeropol has overseen the distribution of $1.1 million in grant monies to help the children of activist parents who have suffered consequences of their actions. The RFC, which also supports "targeted" activist youth, does not always agree with the activism of their grantees. The point, says Meeropol, is recognizing that dissent is the very kernel of a functioning democracy. Censorship, harassment, incarceration and capital punishment are tools at the government's disposal, but that does not make the use of those tools right, righteous, or even rightfully granted to an entity charged with constitutional, representative governance over our lives. The fear conspiracy of which Julius wrote over 50 years ago still has as one of its chief goals the de facto (and now, de jure) criminalization of dissent. The criminalization of dissent, says Meeropol, is occurring beneath our very noses, creeping closer to its goal day by precious day. Silence, complicity and obeisance; this is the America that our administration would seem to prefer that we embrace. "We're getting closer to labeling dissenters as terrorists and creating a situation where the price would be so high for dissent that people would be fearful of doing it," Meeropol explains. |
